870 Old Routine
Suffering from the limitation of troops, Li Dingguo is also tired, for him, whether it is Shah Jahan or Aurangzeb are enemies, whenever he leads the army south, it is a threat.
In this regard, he had to sigh that it was really tiring to fight in a distant foreign land. The language is different, the customs are different, everything is different anyway, and with the little force in his hands, it is already difficult to control these places, not to mention that he has to face the enemy from the north who is likely to suddenly move south at any time.
At this time, he had a kind of understanding, why did the emperor quickly lead the army eastward, he must have encountered a problem like him, and he couldn't stand up, right?
Without the emperor's containment in the north, the Mughal enemy would definitely soon move south, so Li Dingguo began to prepare to withdraw to Bombay at any time.
The natives under his rule slowly became aware of his deployment. And so, the restless man reappeared. Even the Ming army itself is ready to leave at any time, which means that their future master is basically the Mughal Empire. Therefore, these restless people began to move again, trying to be in Aurangzeb, and they probably thought that they could have a meeting when they went south. The situation, for the Ming army, is becoming more and more bad.
At this time, the morale of the Ming army, because it had been overseas for a long time, was slowly depressed in such a situation.
Later, however, instead of leading the army south, Aurangzeb fled westward, and the latest news says that the Ming Emperor had led an army of one million from the east to the west.
The news shook the entire south like an earthquake. The soldiers of the Ming army, who were demoralized, suddenly came back to life as if they had been beaten with chicken blood. And those natives were dumbfounded one by one, because according to this situation, the entire Mughal Empire would definitely be Ming in the future!
As a result, some natives began to betray those restless, and Li Dingguo did not show mercy and killed a large number of them. At the same time, he also reported the news to Yan Yingyuan in Mumbai.
Yan Yingyuan was overjoyed when he heard this, so he dispatched more than 5,000 horses and personally led the troops north. In this way, the forces on Li Dingguo's side were strengthened, so that Li Dingguo could finally cross the river and continue to expand northward.
The news from the north, though repeated, is that the Persian army appeared and besieged Delhi, which was occupied by the Ming Emperor, along with Aurangzeb's army. However, before they could think anything, the news of the Ming army's defeat of Aurangzeb and the pursuit of the Persian Empire's army fleeing west spread south at a faster pace.
At this moment, basically the overall situation of the Mughal has been decided, and it will be the world of the Ming army in the future. In this way, Li Dingguo's actions became very favorable. At the same time, the specific news about the Ming army in the north finally reached him more.
When Li Dingguo heard this, he couldn't help but be speechless for a long time. He didn't expect that the emperor didn't need the surrender of the rich and nobles, but instead raided their homes and gave half of their property to the ordinary people, so as to fight the Mughal Dynasty.
As soon as he heard it, he immediately remembered what he had done when he was a thief. Suddenly, he realized why it was easy for the emperor to control those Mughals, but on his side, there was still rebellion, and it also made him feel the difficulty of ruling the place.
In such a comparison, Li Dingguo couldn't help but sigh, the emperor is too powerful!
Subsequently, he immediately reported the matter to Yan Yingyuan. didn't say anything, Yan Yingyuan had just arrived, and he was an official older than Li Dingguo, so he immediately adjusted his strategy in the Mughal and learned from Emperor Chongzhen's hand.
Not to mention, the effect is immediate. With the support of the Mughals of the largest class, Yan Yingyuan's power immediately expanded dramatically, and the situation became very good.
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Emperor Chongzhen was able to learn about the situation on Yan Yingyuan's side in time through the eavesdropping system, and he was relieved to know that they had adjusted their strategy. As a result, he also had a plan in his heart. In the future, in foreign wars, you must tell your courtiers that they will all adopt this method, so that they can truly gain a firm foothold in the war far from their homeland.
If they only rely on the defection of local magnates and conflict of interests, once the Ming army's force is not enough to deter them, they are likely to rebel. On the contrary, those strata who have nothing, as long as they give a little more benefits, they will protect the interests of the Ming army.
This kind of thing is not only done by yourself, but also by others. For example, Yan Yingyuan's side, Hong Chengchou's side, Sun Chuanting's side, and so on.
Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen made a decree and clarified his guidance to the feudal officials from all walks of life. Then, his attention returned to the present.
Although Abbas II was a capable king, he was only a mortal after all, and under the pressure of the enemy's pursuit, it was impossible to lead the army to retreat westward at any speed!
In such a situation, Abbas II has a lot of headaches.
First, low morale is inevitable. However, everyone knows that they must stick to it at this time, otherwise, as soon as the army is defeated, they will all finish playing.
Second, the rations brought by the previous eastward march were slowly consumed, and at their current marching speed, they could not hold out at all to return to Lahore.
Either way, it's very deadly to the army.
Therefore, Abbas II also wanted to solve the problem, and the most effective thing was to defeat the pursuing enemy. For this reason, he was extremely worried, and thought of a lot of tricks, whether it was deception or defeat, or setting up an ambush, in short, he thought of all the tricks he could think of, and he thought about pit chasing soldiers, even if he couldn't defeat them completely, as long as he could ruthlessly clean up the chasing soldiers, he could also make the Ming army have some scruples, and he wouldn't bite so tightly like now, so he could give him a breather.
However, the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom was too powerful. The tricks used by Abbas II did not work, and even a few times, the Ming army seemed to know that it would be like that, and targeted countermeasures made Abbas II's side suffer.
This situation made the morale of the Persian Empire's army more and more low, and Abbas II regretted going east more than once. However, at this time, he did not regret the medicine to take, so he could only continue to lead the troops back to the west.
But there is one thing that he can't hold onto, and that is the constant consumption of military rations. Once the rations are gone, the whole army will collapse.
Therefore, Abbas II sent his messenger to Lahore, escorting grain and grass to meet him.
What he would never have imagined was that Emperor Chongzhen knew all the things he had done. In addition, Emperor Chongzhen was also best at killing powerful enemies by striking at the enemy's supply of food and grass. The Jianyu of that year is a best example.
Keeping track of Abbas II's movements, Emperor Chongzhen continued to maintain pressure on the Persian Empire and prevent them from going fast. This is thanks to Aurangzeb's cooperation.
Aurangzeb, who was originally used by Abbas II to cut off, didn't really care about it at all. After all, if his army is exhausted, then he will be finished. Therefore, Aurangzeb's negative response made the pursuit of the Ming army easier.
Abbas II was not without anger, even threatened. However, Aurangzeb was already a piece of hob meat, and he threatened to do so, and even threatened in turn, saying that if Abbas II cut off the food supply for his army, he would be desperate to turn around and attack the Persian army, and they would all die.
Abbas II was not afraid of Aurangzeb, who only had about 10,000 troops, but he was afraid that once the two of them fought, it would definitely give the Ming army a chance to take advantage of, and if he didn't do well, he would be finished, so he could only endure this breath and prepare to settle accounts with Aurangzeb after returning to his own territory.
The army took more than twice as long as usual, and it was less than half the distance, and the food and grass were a little in crisis. Abbas II, worried, finally ushered in a piece of good news: "What, the grain has already been shipped?" Okay, good, urge again, speed up and send it to the army! ”
Abbas II, who was happy, thought about it and issued a new will. Although the Ming army was hanging behind, maintaining a sense of oppression, it seemed that there would be no threat to the grain road, but this batch of grain sent was used by the army to save lives, and there must be no mistakes.
Therefore, he decided to adjust the retreat and deployment of the army, expand horizontally, try to block the possible detour of the Ming army, and ensure the safety of grain transportation.
Of course, after this decision was made, under the pursuit and pressure of the Ming army, it would take a lot of trouble to adjust the strategy and not give the Ming army a chance to take advantage of it.
What Abbas II never expected was that at the same time as he got the news of the grain and grass shipment, Emperor Chongzhen also took out a map and began to look at the terrain.
Among the pursuing armies, many of the cavalry soldiers were originally indigenous to the western Mughals. Emperor Chongzhen called them over and asked them about the specific road conditions, not to mention, there was more than one way to detour to the front of the Persian army.
If it was before, there was no need for the Ming army to make a detour. Because the strength is not as large as the Persian army, if the Ming army divides its troops, it will not be able to stop the enemy, not to mention, and may be broken by each of them.
But the situation at the moment was different, the enemy had to bring food to help the retreating army. How much grain was transported and how well the troops were escorted, Emperor Chongzhen naturally knew clearly. Therefore, he did not hesitate to make a targeted strategy, let Li Laiheng lead 3,000 elite Ming headquarters cavalry, and 2,000 western Mughal soldiers, quietly take another road to go around the front, cut off its grain route, and burn its grain and grass.
With less than 5,000 cavalry, it is difficult to find the pursuing army led by Emperor Chongzhen. Moreover, Emperor Chongzhen completed the deployment faster than Abbas II's actions. Not only that, but also cover with an attack. Therefore, no one knows about the actions of Lee Rae-hyung's side.